Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-21

their opinions III night like he could.
Lord Salisbury prophesied that Mr..
Gladstone would find it difficult to
gather around him any new recruits.
His present adhercnts had gone too far
to recede. What had Mr.. Gladstone
| gained asked the Premier.
He has gained the eighty-six very de-
voted followers of Mr.. Panell, who
had been challenged with having APP
proved murder, and who had refused,
or whose friends had refused for him,
to enter the witness-box and deny the
charge. And this course Mr.. Gladstone
approved. Mr.. Parnell had been as
sisted with funds subscribed by men
who advocated murder. When a man
was accused in such manner it was
not open to him to put the accusation
aside with copious use of the
elegant vocabulary his friends had
introduced into the House of Com
| mons. He was bound TO enter the wit
ness-box and deny the charges against
him most solcmnly. How could Mr..
| Gladstone go before the country asso-
| ciated with men who refused to submit
such n question to the judgment of an
English jury L? The speaker did not be-
lieve in the Gladstone horoscope. The
victory Mr.. Gladstone obtained in 1896
was won by flood of misrepresentation
that could not I've repeated. The Con
servativos were now an organized party,
| powerful to refute falsehood and to dis
| stminate the truth.
1 oo~l,t,c,, ,f 4 ~ - mae l., o.,
ly due TO the work of the Primrose
| League. The present Government
would, when it left Office, hand dom
unimpaired to their successors the great
trust of the empire committed to their
care. Cheers.
Lord Salisbury said We repudiate
the word coercion because, by long
usage, that is applied to a repression of
| political opinion, with which we have
nothing to do. We stand in the pres
ence, in Ireland, of system of crime
which is sapping, most surely and IN
tally, the happiness and freedom Of it,
people. A vast organization is taking
away human freedom and interfering
with men in oil stations by the ma
chinery of intimidation. Mr.. Glad
stone asserts that the crimes bill gives
to the Government the power TO deal
with the political associatonssupp Importing
crime but this power is conferred by
the House of Commons. The House
alone can allow such machinery to De
set in motion. All such opposition is
based upon a false and an unSounl
foundation. The opponents of the
Government endCayOr to apprOpriata
for the purpose of attacking the bid
the feeling which has always intalliGi-
bly, existed against political repression.
but the repressers of crime do not nj
tack the liberty Of the people on the
contrary they are its greatest defanl-
ers. Mr.. Gladstone idea when,
ore fine morning III 1885, he
who had been all his life
vigorous opponent of home rule
awoke to advocate home rule was
that il was it his followers duty to
awake to home-rules, too. [Cheers
and laughter] There is no limit TO
Mr. Gladstone's belief in the obsequi-
ous obedience OF the followers OF his
standard. 1t has always been thought
that the Jesuits make large Claims upon
human obedience when they require
the human will to be expressed as if
by corpses, bat at least the Jesuits well
understand that they have a well-iixed
freedom in the belief they are re-
quired to accept. Mr.. Gladstone's
yotaries, under the pain of cx-
communication, are bound not only
to devote themselves as corpses TO Mr.
Gladstone's will, but are bound to turn
from one opinion to another at mo
ment's notice. They are held mp rs
traitors to civilization and Liberalism
if they dare to adhere to the opinions
he has always taught them. Cheers.
Mr.. Gladstone tells us that for fifteen
years he has believed in home rule. bat
he has kept his change of conviction to
himself so cleverly that everybody be-
lieved that he still objected. 1t seems
hard that Liberal Unionists should be
punished with all this imprecation be-
cause they were not acute enough to
discern how much Mr.. Gladstone was
taking them in. TCheers A voice: ale
has taken himself in.
Lord Salisbury resumed This treat
ment is not calculated to gather around
him new staff and new army. There
are some desperate politicians who
have gone so far that they cannot re-
treat, and must follow Gladstone
wherever he leads them. But where
will he find the new officers who
will be willing to expose them
selves to these sudden and violent
changes, to this imperiOus insistance
on absolute humiliation !? Mr.. Glai-
stone will find that on the Liberal eide
of the House the spirit OF Englishmen
has not quite disappeared, and that the
leader to be followed must be the leader
who can be trusted to stand by his
opinions. Mr.. Gladstone thinks that
Mir. Parnells position is perfectly
reasonable and honorable, and that
nobody ought to ask bin to clear him
self If Mr. Parnell and his associates
were men absolutely free from suspicion
in this matter / would understand
that reasoning. But they belong
TO the party of which large
wing has worked by murder and
has been largely supported by the
contributions of others who openly adj
vocate political assassination. Mr..
Parnell's trusted friends have mixed on |
terms of intimacy with those whose
advocacy OF assassination is well
known, and the language OF Mr.. Par
nell and bis friends in speaking OF the |
fearful crimes that have been COM
mitted is not above reproach, being |
marked by indifference TO, and even by |
tolerance of murder. When such
grave case of presumption exists it is
not open for him to take refuge in
mere denial or to think that he can
dispose OF the accusations by the lib
erai use Of the wide and energetic vo.
cabulary which his followers have used
ia the House OF Commons.
COMMENT ON SALISBURY.
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